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Yes @avclub-56dfc41867dc4d05e285222c24c4e7c2:disqus, the final shot of the scene showed all of the dwarves and Anton the Giant lamely poking at the ground with their pickaxes. 

To me, this episode seemed like Fellowes "putting the toys back on the shelf" at the end of the season.  One way or another, he resolved most of the oustanding plotlines (except for Daisy—Farm Owner) and set up a new-ish equilibrium to hold everyone over for the off-season.

Yes, but he diagnosed it as a home run. 

That's Dwarf Union local 382 at work. 

I went back even further:  IT'S KUBIAK FROM PARKER LEWIS

Also, they have ONE SPROUT to plant.  How many dwarves does it take to plant one bean sprout?

Presumably there's a judge, but we've never seen one.

A pair of hefty giant work-boots should have made short work of those two. 

I never watched Lost.  Is Jorge Garcia always such a horrible actor?  Angus T. Jones would have been more believable.  Garcia seemed like nothing more than a fat stoner gawping around bemusedly: a poor man's Seth Rogen.

The problem with Chopped is that the time constraint forces the resulting dishes to blend together at times.  If the final, "difficult" mystery ingredient is hard and crumbly, you make a crust out of it; if it can somehow be liquified, you make a sauce out of it.

Although there is usually at least one goat each season, I think this show is refreshing, because it generally looks like the contestants for the most part respect each other.  Even when people who have gotten, shall we say, less generous edits (like Stefan) are eliminated, there was plenty of hugging before he packed…

Agreed.  There was a lack of subtlety and foregrounding on some of the minor plot points that you mention this episode, to contrast against the major plot points that have been building up the entire season.  Has Gunnar ever even mentioned his roommates or living situation before this episode? 

I thought it odd that we'd never seen the dancers or the entourage before this episode, where they only existed to highlight the highly produced nature of Juliette's stage show.

As long as it's not an Adam Sandler movie. 

I thought the strippers in the beginning, plus the porn subplot made it one of the more sex-obsessed episodes of the show.  As such, it was not necessarily representative of the what the show has to offer.  The thought process behind selecting this particular episode for the post Super Bowl spot seems a bit crass. 

I thought the Joan story addressed the series continuity, but not to a degree that first-time viewers would be confused.  Same for Sherlock's line to Gregson. 

And not only did the episode focus on a serial killer, but serial killer who was so "clever" that he executed a fiendishly clever escape, after which left a clue leading to a sinister master plan which was actually a decoy from an even more sinister master plan.

The problem (for A-B) is that there is some portion of the market who won't purchase a beer largely because of the perception that a company that will spend 3 million to purchase a Super Bowl ad, is probably spending substantially more on their marketing than they do on making a beer people would want to drink.  They…

I feel a certain satisfaction about retaining awareness of the commercials and having no idea whatsoever what the hell they are selling.  Total fail on the advertisers' part if you can't remember what to buy afterward (or at the very least, what brand to "feel more positively about."